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Summary: well worth your trouble...
Review: The honesty and orginality of this work is refreshing and exciting. For the first time in my memory (aside from my viewing of the subsequent movie) I felt that an accurate and unbiased view of a very seedy sort of lifestyle was presented to me. The characters are not glamorized, nor are they condemed for their choices. They are just that - choices - and the reader is left to form his/her own opinion. Admittedly, it is rough going at first due to the Scottish phonics. But stick with it for a few chapters, read aloud when you have to and you will get use to it. By the end, the words will have ceased to be a challenge and will have become great fun. I highly recommend it for anyone desiring a new outlook on what is beginning to become a tired story. You will not find the usual prejudice, pity, riducule or sappiness attached to other similar stories. One warning: Parents, please read it before passing it on to your teen kids. The language can be strong and drugs, sex and other 'vices' are pervasive.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: It quite hard to read this book in the beginning, but then you just love the language, the dialect. Read it in it's original language, scottish. AND READ THE BOOK BEFORE SEEING THE MOVIE!
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Summary: good beyond words
Review: One of the best books ever written. It ranked number 10 on best books ever written on a survey I saw. I loved this from start to finish. The way it juggles perspectives and you really get inside the characters heads. You learn to despise them and love them, yet you're entertained by them all. This book blew the movie out of the water. I wish I had three thumbs so I could give more than just two.
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Summary: It's sickening...but I love it!
Review: The book is nauseating in some parts and incredibly arduous to read unless you read it aloud...But, man, it makes a deep impression. It delves into the world of Scotland, poor and economically screwed over (God I love my heritage!:) It's a sharp turn from what Americans are used to and on top of it...It's all druggies which adds a nice flavour to it...For the most part, the book is written in phonics the way Scottish persons speak which, as I said, makes it hard to read except aloud (or if you happen to have Ewan McGregors voice stored in your mind). In my opinion, the characters are classic and the story is an amazing piece of work. It's recommended for everyone save possibly for impressionable teens who might put the "heroic" drug soaked characters on a pedestal to emulate.
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Summary: easily one of the best of all time
Review: flat out brilliant, thats all that can be said. read it for yourself and find out.
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Summary: greatest book ever
Review: This book was completely awesome. The movie was good, but the book was better (usually the case). I love the way that welsh doesn't tell you who's speaking as the point of view skips from chapter to chapter. You have to learn the way the character thinks and speaks. When I first read it, i was a little confused because of the dialect. But the way that it is written is trippy. You can actually hear the boys from Leith speaking. It's just literary genius
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Summary: Tight
Review: Excellent novel, full of disjointed short stories, that really drive home the squalor and misery of modern, suburban life. It's a very blatant book, full of entertaining situations and disgusting parts that will make ye retch (some involve bodily secretions, let's leave it at that), but also, there's subtlety at work behind all that; Welsh does not make his work sensational and doesn't overstate what he's saying, which is a blinkin' good quality, in mine opinion. Read this. It's a tad better than the excellence of its film.
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Summary: It's not the movie...
Review: While the film version of Trainspotting presents a rather slick, humorous version of Mark Renton's life with the needle, the book devotes perhaps a third of itself to a more realistic one. For example, Diane has no condoms, and Renton is raped while he's passed out by a dirty, neurotic man. Its scope is much larger than the film's, encompassing perhaps three times the number of significant characters, and weaving their stories together in a way that keeps the reader feeling as confused as nauseous. I liked it on the whole, but too much of it felt disjointed and irrelevant for me to really enjoy it.
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Summary: A good laugh
Review: A wid hiv tae sae that this is wanae they books that make yi laugh ootloud. A started readin it in the boozer and ended up in a fit, wae everboby lookin it me.
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Summary: trainspotting is a masterpiece
Review: This book is seriously a great piece of writing..even though it took me a while to get used to the scottish writing...i have read all his books but this one is one of a kind. Everyone should read this book because it really makes you think about a life and the choices that you make.
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